Grade: 7 Unit: 2 Week: 4 Content: ELA Dates: 10/22-10/26
Theme Essential Question: How do characters, real and fictional, use words and actions to demonstrate perseverance?
Essential Questions:
What are the techniques used for multimedia?
What is analysis, reflection, and research?
Standards (Weeks 4-6)
W.7.1.a Text Types and Purposes: Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
W.7.1.b Text Types and Purposes: Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
W.7.1.c Text Types and Purposes: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence.
W.7.1.d Text Types and Purposes: Establish and maintain a formal style.
W.7.1.e Text Types and Purposes: Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
W.7.7 Research to Build Present Knowledge: Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and generating additional related, focused questions for further research and investigation.
W.7.9 Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
W.7.9.a Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history”).W.7.1.c Text Types and Purposes: Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence.
W.9.b Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Apply grade 7 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g. “Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims”)
SL.7.2 Comprehension and Collaboration: Analyze the main ideas and supportingdetails presented in diverse media and formats (e.g. visually quantitatively, orally) and explain how the ideas clarify a topic, text, or issue under study.
SL.7.5 Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Include multimedia components and visual displays in presentations to clarify claims and findings and emphasize salient points.
Ongoing Standards
R.L.7.10 Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
R.L.7.1 Key Ideas and Details: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
R.I.7.1 Key Ideas and Details: Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
R.I.7.10 Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary non-fiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
W.7.9 Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
W.7.10 Range of Writing: Write routinely over extended time frames (times for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
SL.7.1 Comprehension and Collaboration: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 7 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
SL.7.1.a Comprehension and Collaboration: Come to discussions prepared, having read or researched material under study; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
SL.7.1.b Comprehension and Collaboration: Follow rules for collegial discussions, track progress toward specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
SL.7.1.c Comprehension and Collaboration: Pose questions that elicit elaboration and respond to others’ questions and comments with relevant observations and ideas that bring the discussion back on topic as needed.
SL.7.1d Comprehension and Collaboration: Acknowledge new information expressed by others and, when warranted, modify your own views.
L.7.2 Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.7.3 Knowledge of Language: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
L.7.4 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 7 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
L.7.4.a Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word of phrase.
L.7.4.c Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Consult general and specialized reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital prints to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part growth.
L.7.6 Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension.
Objectives: The Learner Will
TLW research a famous person who they think persevered in spite of significant challenges.
TLW analyze film and/or audio for how the author uses technique for effect.
TLW draw evidence from literary or informational texts that support analysis, reflection, and research.
Assessment (Week 4-Week 6)
Product (Research for Argumentative Essay in Week 5):
Research Presentation: Begin work on Research Essay/Multimedia Presentation for final week
Research famous person who you think persevered in spite of significant challenges. See if you can find a video clip of him/her speaking, and a news article about his/her life/speech. Argumentative essay/presentation must reflect how he/she demonstrated perseverance through their words and/or actions.
Focus questions for research: Where did the character live, and why?
What was that character’s historical context?
What role, if any, does the character’s family play in his/her outlook on life?
What obstacle(s) does the character overcome? How?
Key Questions (match Standard)
Why create questions for research, and why do people perform research?
What are the different types of techniques in a variety of media (such as film, text, etc.)?
How would you cite various types of media such as film, video, audio, and/or text as evidence used to support a claim in an argumentative presentation/essay?
Observable Student Behaviors (Performance)
Student’s presentations will highlight specific characteristics of perseverance.
Research must draw relevant evidence to support claim
Muliple forms of media must be used as evidence in presentation
Vocabulary
ELA
Analysis Cohesion Diverse Evidence Integration Multimedia Oral Reflection Research
Suggested Activities (see Legend to highlight MCO and [HYS])
Using a graphic organizer, students can compare and contrast the details of a drama or film to orgranize the facts. [Cues, Questions, Organizers]
As a class, generate a list of possible research questions. Then identify those questions in this list that are focused and add to the new list with more focused questions. Use this as an example. [Cues, Questions, Organizers]
Students may analyze and evaluate peers’ presentations for topic clarity, effective supporting detail, and techniques used for presentation effect. [Objectives/Feedback]
Students may self-reflect upon their research, presentation strategies, and/or supporting details for future improvements. Socialization
Show a professional style debate or issue presentation and students analyze it for techniques, main idea, clarity, and supporting details. Socialization
Theme Essential Question: How do characters, real and fictional, use words and actions to demonstrate perseverance?
Essential Questions:
Standards (Weeks 4-6)
Ongoing Standards
Objectives: The Learner Will
Assessment (Week 4-Week 6)
Key Questions (match Standard)
Observable Student Behaviors (Performance)
Vocabulary
Cohesion
Diverse
Evidence
Integration
Multimedia
Oral
Reflection
Research
Suggested Activities (see Legend to highlight MCO and [HYS])
Homework
Terminology for Teachers
Ethnicity/Culture | Immigration/Migration | Intercultural Competence | Socialization | Racism/Discrimination
[High Yield Strategies]
Cues, Questions, Organizers | Summarizing/Notetaking | Reinforcing/Recognition | Homework/Practice |
Non-Linguistic representation | Cooperative Learning | Objectives/Feedback |
Generating-Testing Hypothesis | Similarities/Differences
Resources
Professional Texts
Literary Texts
Informational Texts
Art, Music, and Media
Manipulatives
Games
Videos
- Jackson’s Plan:
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=1D3C5570-05F9-4F2B-8B39-F7CC6E469437&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US- Holocaust: Teenage Experience
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/?blnPreviewOnly=1&guidAssetId=0597503a-0bf8-423f-9c89-ef340274469a- Video: "Life Worth Living: One Man's Story"
http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=8658EE7A-16DB-4A10-B79D-22464FEFA3E0Sight Words
SMART Board Lessons, Promethean Lessons
Other Activities, etc.
- Mini-Debate: Students use their research as supporting evidence to debate an issue. Then
reflect upon the evidence used in the debate and whether or not it was supportive of the issuesaddressed.
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Arts
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